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August 11, 2010

G115: Red Sox 10, Blue Jays 1

Bill Hall went 3-for-5, with two home runs and four RBI, and Clay Buchholz limited the Blue Jays to one unearned run over eight innings (8-5-1-2-4, 109).

Hall's dongs broke a 1-1 tie in the second and extended Boston's lead to 4-1 in the fourth, respectively. Boston broke the game open with no outs in the fifth, as J.D. Drew homered, Victor Martinez and David Ortiz singled, and Adrian Beltre homered, ending Marcum's (4-7-8-3-3, 92) night. Brian Tallet came in and allowed a double to Mike Lowell and a one-out RBI single to Hall.

In the eighth, Darnell McDonald, who had subbed for Drew in right, tripled and scored on Victor's single. ... Lowell had a big night, with two singles, a double, and a bases loaded walk.

The Yankees beat the Rangers 7-6, keeping Boston 5 GB in the East. The Rays lost to the Tigers 3-2, so the Red Sox are 3.5 GB Tampa Bay in the WC.

Also: If a foul ball is heading towards you and your girlfriend, (a) do not act like a stereotypical 1950s housewife on a stool shrieking at a mouse and (b) try to come up with a better excuse for your behaviour than this guy.

Just listening to Michael Kay on the radio........He was all over Jeter, saying he couldn't put down a bunt and was amazed he didn't beat out a slow grounder to Guzman who the flipped to Andrus then threw out Jeter at first....Also calling out Teixera questioning why he needs 2 days off since his newborn and wife are doing well.......

Blogger is running out a new comment dashboard thing. Turns out it was added to JoS last night and some comments were classified as spam, including two of mine! They were the post-game "Muddy" comment and a screenshot of one of the homophobic comments our dear troll says he never never never left (so you can go back and see that if you like.) It also dumped a comment of Benjamin's. They have all been restored, according to L.

Just listening to Michael Kay on the radio........He was all over Jeter, saying he couldn't put down a bunt and was amazed he didn't beat out a slow grounder to Guzman who the flipped to Andrus then threw out Jeter at first....Also calling out Teixera questioning why he needs 2 days off since his newborn and wife are doing well.......

Always a ray of sunshine, that Mr Kay. He was a bitter old man long before his time.

The "icon" of Blue Jays radio is going on and on about "soft players" - leaders are those who play hurt - you know who the soft ones are, frequent visits to the training room. STFU. What good is playing hurt? When pitchers do it they screw over the whole team. Why do they have training rooms if players aren't supposed to go there? Bah.

Wow. Jays radio is outdoing themselves in stoopid, yapping about how TOUGH wells is and how "soft" players are bad because they are in the trainers room all the time. real "rub some dirt in it" and play school. sure, can't throw, can't swing, can't run, may fuck up your body and ruin your career, but by golly i'm a gonna play a meaningless game in mid-august.

Yankees just failed to get a runner out in a rundown between home and third. Rarely see that happen.

This was beautiful. Michael Young ran on contact from third and got hung up. Rodriguez throws to Posada at home. Young turns around, but Rodriguez lingers in the basepath, screening Posada's throw back to Jeter (now covering third). Rodriguez eventually gets out of the way, throw goes to Jeter, Young slides in under the tag.